Exactly.... Well said.
Floyd
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:10:29 +0100, you wrote:
>Simile \Sim"i*le\, n.; pl. {Similes}. [L., from similis. See {Similar}.]
>(Rhet.)
>A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects,
>to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. [1913
>Webster]
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>May I please ask why some people have such a problem with similes on this
>list? Surely people realise that those who put them into their discussions are
>merely expressing some creative thinking and in the context of their
>environment and spheres of interest.
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>"Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are
>doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the
>slopes of Gilead." - Song of Solomon 4:1
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>One word... "context."
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>I can understand why "follower", "submission" and "leader" have somehow become
>dirty words to many. Our current climate dictates that no one has the ability
>to be responsible without abusing it, and that submission is a sign of
>vulnerability.
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>What I love about Tango is that it is one of the few things left that allow
>men and women to exercise clear roles and when it works the result is such
>incredible beauty. Submission is not a reflection of lack but a reflection of
>self confidence in the allowance of another to take a level responsibility for
>the good of both. Submission to leadership is the giving of responsibility to
>succour (give aid to) freedom.
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>Similes; some women which I feel have taken the most offence to these; take
>pause before you heap prejudice on a man's comments. Allow us men, humbly to
>think out aloud and allow us the poetic license to describe the moments with
>you.
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>Followers allow us to lead; allow us the responsibility for direction, the
>weight of decision. Allow us to lift you up, free you so that you can close
>your eyes, be held, in the embrace, in the music.
>
>We dance Tango because of YOU, for YOU, there is little else.
>
>'Mash
>London,UK
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